The occupiers admitted their inability to provide full assistance to cancer patients on the left bank of Kherson region. Due to the lack of necessary conditions and equipment, patients are now planned to be sent to occupied Melitopol in Zaporizhia region.
This was reported by media controlled by the Russian Federation and by representatives of the occupation’s Ministry of Health.
According to available information, the capacity for oncological care on the left bank of Kherson region remains critically limited. The recently renovated outpatient care department has still not been able to start operating as a full-fledged center. Currently, local doctors can provide only chemotherapy and primary diagnostics.
For receiving more complex or high-tech treatment, residents of the left bank are forced to go to the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhia region.
Note, according to the data of the illegally created Mandatory Health Insurance Fund of Kherson region, medical services are satisfactory to only 34% of the population of temporarily occupied Kherson region.
The state of medicine on the left bank of Kherson region remains critical – there is a shortage of specialists. According to occupation media, to compensate for the absence of medical personnel, doctors from Mordovia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Krasnodar Krai, Moscow and other Russian regions periodically come to hospitals on the left bank of Kherson region.
In September 2025 it became known that the Russian Federation did not allocate funds for the treatment of cancer patients in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region.